Just wondering, are you painting all of these in a coherent scheme or do you simply grab models from your painted collection?

I ordered and splitboxed so that I have the wildfire bundle stuff twice. I hope that this will give me enough kitbashing material to cover all non-released models that I really want to use.

For the models in the beyond box I think I am willing to wait or use very rough proxies like Posthuman Mk4 for Omega.

Alpha = Kappa placed on a 55 mm base with blue tac
Lynx = would buy a crocmen if it turns out I need one
Zeta = Marut, but unlikely I’ll actually play it
Razor = Delta with naked arms and headswap
Varangians = Already painted Ariadnans or a conversion later on
Cyberghosts = Davanas
Lambda = Kappa lady with pistol replaced by a medkit
REMs = Aleph stuff
Monstrucker = Dozer

My main focus for the start will be lists with two Gangbusters and two Team Sirius, so my initial efforts will be to avoid doubles here. After that my idea is to manage resources efficiently e.g. the Kappa with medkit can be a Kappa paramedic once the Lambdas are released.

I will use the painted Galwegians from my Ariadna collection, but everything else will be painted coherently (unless I order that pack of Jaguars). Since I'm happy to play on a modest paint level I don't mind stripping the paint from parts of my collection from time to time (it also helps that I'm on sick leave this week and can spend the next days on finishing the entire army). So it's not that much effort for me.

The only other unit I'm not sure about is the Omega because I think that a release in october or november is realistic. For the rest I'm not holding my breath.

Good call on the Lynx and the Razor by the way. :-) I will consider those.

Andromeda as my Alpha
Dactyl's as Lambdas.
the two female wulvers + valkyrie as my Varangians
I kind of want to mash the Szally's arms with a marut body for a converted Zeta. Thoughts?
Using Dart as my Lynx unit
Hollowmen as Beta troopers

I kind of want to mash the Szally's arms with a marut body for a converted Zeta. Thoughts?

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Sounds expensive!

I mostly play Nomads so prepainted proxies will be:
Varangians - Jaguars more for play clarity than anything else.
Cyberghosts - Interventors, same reason as the Jags.
Omega - Iguana pilot. Weird lookin' HI with a giant gun, perfect.

To be painted:
Just bought the Crocmen 2 pack to use as Gangbusters. They're the only tank top wearing unit besides Jaguars so I can paint them the same as the starter Gangbuster. Surfing hacker Croc even has a visor so it'll probably see the most use. Going to be stuck using CrazyKoalas as Madtraps for the time being though.

Also just split a Tunguska starter with someone moving into ForCo, so I'll paint up the Hollowman as a Beta and the Heckler as a trenchcoat detective type, maybe Lynx?.

Bought the old Dakini HMG blister to play itself.

Might repaint a spare Ghulam and chicken bot to be team Sirius.

I have no idea what to do for Alpha. What does an S4 with wounds and no bike look like? Maybe one of the french sappers but that doesn't feel right either. Probably going to use a random S4 REM for the time being, or just stand a random troop on an S4 base.

Andromeda as my Alpha
Dactyl's as Lambdas.
the two female wulvers + valkyrie as my Varangians
I kind of want to mash the Szally's arms with a marut body for a converted Zeta. Thoughts?
Using Dart as my Lynx unit
Hollowmen as Beta troopers

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I don’t think the Marut body can handle those strong arms. I‘d suggest to take Szally and improve her by chopping some pieces of a Sirius Bot.

Yeah, borrowing from aleph and varuna for the time being. I'm a little torn what to do with the Sirius squad. I want to run two, but the minis arrived friday and they're not really conversion/repose friendly (they're both built from two pieces).

Curious to see what solutions other people come up with for the sirius bots in particular.

Alpha - Hannibal in a 55mm base
Deva - Aleph character from RPG (who is pretty much a deva so it might not be an actual proxy lol)
Cuervo - Delta
Omega - Converted HMG ORC
Beta - Hollow Man
Zeta - Dragao
Varangians - Galwegians and Dogfaces (had a mispack and only have 2 galwegians)
Remotes - Nomad remotes because they are the only ones I own